LOVE YOUR CAREER AGAIN
I’ll Show You How to Stop Hating Your Job So You Can Create a Career (and Life) That Feels As Good As It Looks.
Welcome, I’m Erika Royal.
I’m a Harvard-educated employment litigator who, at the height of my career, made the bold decision to leave law and become the CEO of a multi-8-figure coaching start-up. I’m also a Master Certified Life Coach and the creator of Success Reimagined Coaching.
I teach executives and professionals to redefine what success means to them by helping them discover who they really are so they can get what they really want. This “whole self” approach authentically embraces and incorporates both professional and personal success.
Success Reimagined Coaching enables executives and professionals to create dream careers that support the lives they want today, not the ones they chose decades ago.
LOVE YOUR CAREER AGAIN
I’ll Show You How to Stop Hating Your Job So You Can Create a Career (and Life) That Feels As Good As It Looks.
Welcome, I’m Erika Royal.
I’m a Harvard-educated employment litigator who, at the height of my career, made the bold decision to leave law and become the CEO of a multi-8-figure coaching start-up. I’m also a Master Certified Life Coach and the creator of Success Reimagined Coaching.
I teach executives and professionals to redefine what success means to them by helping them discover who they really are so they can get what they really want. This “whole self” approach authentically embraces and incorporates both professional and personal success.
Success Reimagined Coaching enables executives and professionals to create dream careers that support the lives they want today, not the ones they chose decades ago.
A nagging inability to feel happy.
That’s how it started.
From the outside, it looked like I had the perfect life.
I was earning a great income as a partner at a national, top 50-ranked law firm.
I had the house, the car, the beautiful family.
And I was profoundly dissatisfied.
Two decades earlier, at the start of my career, I loved every part of being a lawyer. Over time, my job kept getting bigger. After I got married and had kids, my personal life kept getting bigger too.
Soon, it felt like there was no longer room for me.
But I just kept going, checking tasks off my to-do lists, making it work.
And it did work, for everyone except me.
All I could think was, “How did I get here?”
A nagging inability to feel happy.
That’s how it started.
From the outside, it looked like I had the perfect life.
I was earning a great income as a partner at a national, top 50-ranked law firm.
I had the house, the car, the beautiful family.
And I was profoundly dissatisfied.
Two decades earlier, at the start of my career, I loved every part of being a lawyer. Over time, my job kept getting bigger. After I got married and had kids, my personal life kept getting bigger too.
Soon, it felt like there was no longer room for me.
But I just kept going, checking tasks off my to-do lists, making it work.
And it did work, for everyone except me.
All I could think was, “How did I get here?”
The expectations tied to my role had become overwhelming…
I was always on call. I had to maintain a perfect image, negotiate workplace politics, take on enormous responsibility in high-stress situations, and sacrifice family and personal time to manage an impossible workload. It was also my job to know all the answers and command authority to ensure clients, colleagues, and opposing counsel took me seriously.
As a Black woman and first-generation law grad, it was a lot.
I didn’t want to leave my job…
I just wanted to be happy.
But, the list of things I was supposed to be and do was endless. I resented all of it…
The more I tried to force myself into the demands of my role, to be the person my job demanded of me, the stronger my resentment grew.
I was experiencing what I now call, “Misaligned Success”
It’s when we are outwardly succeeding but inwardly suffering, pushing against our values to fit a career or an image.
It’s self-destructive.
When we are misaligned, we cannot be happy.
When our job satisfaction plummets, so does our overall life satisfaction.
How can that be considered true success?
It’s not. It’s misaligned.
The expectations tied to my role had become overwhelming…
I was always on call. I had to maintain a perfect image, negotiate workplace politics, take on enormous responsibility in high-stress situations, and sacrifice family and personal time to manage an impossible workload. It was also my job to know all the answers and command authority to ensure clients, colleagues, and opposing counsel took me seriously.
As a Black woman and first-generation law grad, it was a lot.
I didn’t want to leave my job…
I just wanted to be happy.
But, the list of things I was supposed to be and do was endless. I resented all of it…
The more I tried to force myself into the demands of my role, to be the person my job demanded of me, the stronger my resentment grew.
I was experiencing what I now call, “Misaligned Success”
It’s when we are outwardly succeeding but inwardly suffering, pushing against our values to fit a career or an image.
It’s self-destructive.
When we are misaligned, we cannot be happy.
When our job satisfaction plummets, so does our overall life satisfaction.
How can that be considered true success?
It’s not. It’s misaligned.
Misaligned Success is when career status and monetary success come at the cost of our well-being.
Aligned Success, on the other hand, is when our career accomplishments and personal values are in harmony.
Misaligned Success is when career status and monetary success come at the cost of our well-being.
Aligned Success, on the other hand, is when our career accomplishments and personal values are in harmony.
True success demands that we stop trying to separate the professional and the personal.
To create true success, we need to rethink how we approach our work and how we define success, professionally and personally. Only then can we achieve the fulfillment we desire.
You’ll never achieve aligned success if you are too caught up in what you think you should want to even consider what you do want.
Success does not have to be tied to financial status or title. It does not have to mean missing your kids’ ball games and dance recitals. It does not have to equal neglecting your self-care.
Success does not have to be all or nothing.
This is the lie perpetuated by work culture, and we accept it because it’s what everyone expects and it’s what everyone around us is doing.
The longer you continue to believe this lie, the stronger your dissatisfaction with your career grows.
The cost? Life passes you by. You realize you are living the same year over and over.
The impact of misaligned success may sound extreme, but it’s true…
You find yourself overwhelmed with stress and anxiety, feeling hopeless about the possibility of change. This daily resentment seeps into every aspect of your life.
Your relationships suffer from the stress you’re under and the long hours you spend at work, leading to less patience, communication breakdowns, tension, and conflict.
You constantly doubt your abilities, which dims your true potential. This leads to achieving less and merely going through the motions to survive in your role.
HERE’S ANOTHER TRUTH:
If you don’t start reimagining success and defining it on your terms…
If you don’t bring all of you to your current role to experience what true success feels like…
And if you continue to present only the parts of yourself you think you “should be” or “must be” to maintain the status quo (while hating every second of it)…
…. you’ll never be happy in your career.
And this dissatisfaction will ripple into every area of your life.
Leaving you trapped in a prison of your own making.
(Not to mention the negative effects that we know stress can have on your physical health).
I want more for you because I know…
You can be happy. In your current job. Right now.
I know because I have been where you are. It starts with reimagining what success in your career and life can look like.
Reimagining success will allow you to bridge the gap between your current misalignment and fully bringing your whole self to work, allowing you to experience aligned success and the happiness you desire.
This is exactly where we begin during your free consultation.
We will discover how you can start loving your career (and your life) again now, as we work towards aligned success.
Book your free 50-minute Reimagining Success Call.
You Are 3 Steps Away from Loving Your Career Again
Step 1: Book your free “Reimagining Success Call” today. Just answer a few simple questions and choose a time that works great for you.
Step 2: Attend our call and get a custom action plan to create success on your terms.
Step 3: Fall in love with your career all over again while achieving more than you thought possible.
Take the Success Reimagined Quiz and find out:
Is it time to reimagine what success looks like in your career?
This assessment will help you understand how your professional satisfaction is impacting your overall happiness and personal life.
You Are 3 Steps Away from Loving Your Career Again
Step 1: Book your free “Reimagining Success Call” today. Just answer a few simple questions and choose a time that works great for you.
Step 2: Attend our call and get a custom action plan to create success on your terms.
Step 3: Fall in love with your career all over again while achieving more than you thought possible.
Take the Success Reimagined Quiz and find out:
Is it time to reimagine what success looks like in your career?
This assessment will help you understand how your professional satisfaction is impacting your overall happiness and personal life.